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Updated Program for Marxism 2009

Easter weekend: Thursday April 9 until Sunday April 12 at Melbourne University

Thursday 9th April

6:30pm

Public meeting: Challenging capitalism and war: featuring a left wing activist from Egypt Mamdouh Habashi, American socialist and author of a new book on the Vietnam War Joe Allen and Socialist Alternative National Executive member Sandra Bloodworth

Australia and the “Good War”: Opposition and Resistance during WW2 with Tom O’Lincoln, author of a soon to be published book on the war

2pm

Q and A with renowned investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker John Pilger

Fighting back against capitalist crisis: a first hand report on worker and student resistance in Greece with Greek socialist activist Thanasis Kourkoulas

4pm

What does the Obama presidency mean for world politics with American socialist Joe AllenThe Northern Territory intervention: the latest racist land grab with NT Aboriginal activist Barbara Shaw, one of the leaders of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, and Socialist Alternative’s Diane Fieldes

7pm

Debate on way forward for the union movement with Tom Bramble author of a new book on the history of the Australian union movement and Grahame McCulloch, General Secretary, National Tertiary Education Union The red in the rainbow – the struggle for sexual liberation with Socialist Alternative National Executive member Louise O’Shea

Marxist foundations: What is the revolutionary attitude to violence and non- violence?

9pm

Red Shelley: a recital by Luke Wilson of the revolutionary poetry of Percy Byshe ShelleyPlus a Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong

Saturday 11th April

10am

Marxist foundations: Is human nature a barrier to radical change?Are Western workers a labour aristocracy? with Lian Jenvey

When the Diggers took on the Scabs – Retaking the Waterfront in 1919 with radical historian Robert Bollard

11:30am

Marxist foundations: Socialist Alternative: Who are we? What do we stand for?What the world economic crisis means for socialists with Socialist Alternative National Executive member Diane Fieldes

Comrades Come Rally: the formation of the Australian Communist Party with Patrick Weiniger

2pm

Panel on Gay Liberation Movement with Liz Ross, Daniel Marshall and another special guest The origins of Bolshevism in Russia: a new interpretation with Sandra Bloodworth

Why does capitalism go into crisis?with Diane Fieldes

4 pm

6pm

Marxist foundations: Why do we need a socialist organisation?Imperialism and the struggle for a free Palestine with a Palestinian socialist, guest speakers from the Middle East and Socialist Alternative’s Mick Armstrong

Animal Farm and 1984: Was Orwell anti-socialist?with Liam Byrne

Power point presentation on the campaign against Connex’s Apartheid railway in occupied Palestine with Jerome Small

7pm

The socialist answer to the deepening capitalist crisis with a range of international speakers and Vashti Kenway from Socialist Alternative

9pm

Film Screening of the Walkley award winning anti-war film Taliban Country, directed by Carmela Baranowska

Plus a Radical history tour of Melbourne University conducted by Mick Armstrong

Sunday 12th April

10am

Marxist foundations: Why a class analysis matters to changing the worldDoes the “Russia question” still matter for the left? with Socialist Alternative magazine editor Corey Oakley

The Marxist theory of sexism, oppression and class with Fleur Taylor

11:30am

Marxist foundations: The capitalist state: what it is and how to challenge it A history of Anarchism – a Marxist critique by Colleen Bolger

A report on working class resistance in the Middle East by Mamdouh Habashi from Egypt

2pm

The ABC of Marxist Economics with Ben Hillier

Does the Marxist theory of imperialism need updating? by Tom Bramble

More than a year of hard Labor: Rudd and Australian politics today with Rebecca Barrigos

4pm

Lenin’s What is to be done – a re-interpretation by Mick Armstrong

Why changing the world means taking power with Allyson Hose

Marxist foundations: Sexism and 21st century capitalism: Why are women still oppressed?